NEW!! Eran Stern is the co-host of the Creative Cow AE podcast and author of some of the web's most popular AE tutorials. In this 5-hour DVD, he'll help you explore the true depths of After Effects. Combining his unique sense of humor and serious AE chops, Eran will teach you how to bring a project from concept to completion.

This is a great tutorial and I bought RG Warp as a result. It works quite well but I found that if I use text that is in a tracked shot that the RG Warp does not "stick" to it. It moves with the camera pan, while the text remains anchored where it should. Any idea how to get the RG Warp Reflection to follow the tracked text?

In order to fix that you can download a free Reflection preset from here: http://www.sternfx.com/flv/Reflection_preset.zip
I've put in a special expression for the mirror effect which should fix this issue for any footage, expect Text.
If you wish to use it with Text layer, then you need to Pre-Compose the Text, apply the Reflection preset and then change the Y value of the Reflection Center until you see fit.

But one question about the no-plugins method... for me the mirror effect does not stay with the layer when I move it, instead doing the mirror opposite. When I move my layer up in the comp the mirrored effect moves down away from it. How come yours stays with the layer?

Nice tutorial Eran. FYI for anybody that wants to buy, Digitial Juice has this plugin for $99 vs. $199 on the RG site. Not sure how long it'll last but it's a good place to look if anyone is interested.

Storage and data management company NetApp announced a set of tools to enhance cloud services, including a more efficient operating system with simple tools to manage data on Amazon Cloud web services.

Kyle Andal and Gerard Andal, lead compositors at Zero VFX, bring invisible post-production magic to several films - including 2014 Academy Award-winning "American Hustle," in which the team helped transform 2013 Boston to 1978 New York - and also several commercial shots with mocha Pro.

LightGrid Script and Demo Tutorial Part TWO with New FeaturePlay VideoLightGrid Script creator Brian Charles demonstrates his newly modified After Effects script for rigging lights in grids and circles. The modified script with the new feature, which adds the ability to enable individual light colors through a checkbox in the effect control panel, is available as a free download in the Project Files folder.

LightGrid Script and Demo TutorialPlay VideoLightGrid Script creator Brian Charles demonstrates his After Effects script for rigging lights in grids and circles. The script is available as a free download in the Project Files folder.

With multiple VFX Oscars (Hugo and Titanic, plus a nomination for Apollo 13) plus a couple of Emmys (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) under his belt, the most remarkable thing about Rob Legato's latest VFX extravaganza is that it doesn't appear to have any VFX at all! Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is a masterpiece of what has become known as invisible effects, and this article from our friends at Imagineer, highlighting Rob's work with mocha, is a real eye-opener.

World‐class user interface designers, graphic artists, and animators create crisp, timeless visual elements for the sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, Oblivion. Kosinski turned to Bradley G. Munkowitz (GMUNK), whom he'd previously worked with on Tron Legacy. As lead interface graphic designer, GMUNK then pulled a team together that included Interface Graphic Designers Joseph Chan (Chanimal) and Jake Sargeant, and Interface Animators Alexander Perry (AP), Navarro Parker (Nav), and David Lewandowski (D-Lew). They were happy to reunite to share how much fun they had creating the 2D effects for the film using an Adobe workflow.